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sorry to dig up this thread one year later; this was aired yesterday in Brazil. I just hope it's sign series 2 is on the way.
despite the problems mentioned above I loved it for the fact that I had a new and very cool Christmas special to watch on TV, something that brings me back to my days as a wee lad, heheh.
did I miss something or was there a scene with Doctor Tennant picking up his suit and white converses? the episode here ended with him still on pijamas, slippers and robe.
I loved that he defeated a race of medieval-looking muscle and bones aliens in his pijamas [that line with him reproducing the Sycorax leader gutural tone was priceless; well, he was full of neat one-liners], no matter how I found the swordfight a bit dull and not how I suppose a Doctor would solve this; hm, then again perhaps he knows how that particular race works.
I was sorry to see Eccleston go, but Tennant has the mad energy and indie kid aura to pull it off. this might have already been covered in series 2, but:
I supose that - even in this memoryless state - this new incarnation of the Doctor remembers the Time War but is also much less depressed about it as he's seen he didn't kill the whole race of Daleks. although I suppose he wishes he wasn't the last Time Lord around.
Doc Eccs had spent too much time in that incarnation and seen awfull things in that persona. you may remember in the pilot how he was photographed on his way to the Titanic...
all in all a good ep., picking right after the end of series 1 and the special charity short and fast forwarding the concept to a promising series 2, no matter how I think the Government should have no ties at all to the Doc.
extra points to those who caught the Thatcher-Faulklands-Blair vibe out of PM Jones. I suppose the near future might see the Doctar fighting Torchwood opposite sides, maybe? |
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